Jonah

Kibwe Tavares • Tanzania • 2013 • 17 min

Story

After two friends photograph a gigantic fish, Zanzibar becomes a tourist hotspot - but not like they dreamed.

Why watch?

• Competed at Sundance
• Swept the 2014 Shots Young Director Awards at Cannes Lions, winning Best Short Film, the Jury Special Award, and the Audience Award
• Short of the Week
• Over one million views on YouTube

”A filmmaker poised to shape the nature of storytelling moving forward.”
Short of the Week

Did you know?

• Daniel Kaluuya went on to earn an Oscar nomination for Get Out and win for Judas and the Black Messiah
• Malachi Kirby later won a BAFTA for Small Axe
• Jack Thorne won two Emmys for Adolescence
• Kibwe Tavares went on to make iconic ads, executive produce Noughts & Crosses, and co-direct Netflix UK’s #1 film The Kitchen with Kaluuya

Fresh eyes from outside Africa can be helpful, as long as they’re not the dominant gaze we internalise. Even when they get the accents wrong.